US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 19 for "Integrated process for conversion of whole crude to light olefins" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,890, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Integrated process for conversion of whole crude to light olefins" was invented by Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light olefins may be produced from a hydrocarbon feed by a method that includes separating the hydrocarbon feed into at least a light gas fraction stream comprising C1-C4 alkanes, a light fraction stream comprising C5+ alkanes, and a heavy fraction stream. The temperature cut between the light fraction stream and the ...